'Please Don't Read This' Headline Leads Incomplete AP Beauchamp Story

Published: August 9, 2007, 2:49 pm

Tags: foreign policy, iraq, media bias debate, middle east, military, michael goldfarb, scott beauchamp, associated press, new republic, usa today, yahoo

One needs to look no further than the Associated Press's story on the Scott Beauchamp saga to understand why the general public not following the news closely doesn't "get" just how biased and antagonistic towards the war, the military, and American soldiers Old Media outlets are. In the case of Scott Beauchamp, now that their brethren at The New Republic (TNR) have been caught red-handed publishing made-up stories, John Milburn and Ellen Simon of the Associated Press appear to be doing everything they can to cover for them -- first, with a headline (probably determined elsewhere within AP) that fails to communicate anything resembling the essence of the story, and second, by struggling mightily in their reporting to make it appear that this is a "he said, she said" dispute, instead of a situation where Beauchamp and TNR have been thoroughly discredited. Here's the headline: Army denounces articles written by GI Trouble is, Paragraphs 4 through 7 of the story make

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